and fall falling ripped out in turn feathers to down to bare to what lies underneath skin but before their range—

“I’m quite sure there’s something above my bed. It lingers in the shadows and reaches out to me when I’m dressed in pajamas and put down my night book. He’s blind and mute and maybe deaf, but that’s okay.”

]]>https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/scales/feed/0whatnoisedoesaplatypusmakeMeditations in Yellowhttps://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/meditations-in-yellow/
https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/meditations-in-yellow/#commentsTue, 08 Sep 2015 01:29:42 +0000http://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/?p=175What do we do when the sky melts?

–

I see flowers there.

Growing from abandoned spines, they burst out of dried stomping grounds, a thistle among weeds who plays hide and seek with a chrysanthemum star.

And clouds scatter – light shatters.

“Caution,” the winds scream, “take care.”

“Don’t let me be alone,” the thistle replies, and the winds carry it away.

–

In the corner of your backyard, we turned over a rotting wagon, prodding it with holes for collected things. Ear wax and amber and torn apart dead leaves rescued from winter’s grounds. One day we’ll make a hole big enough for a lion and his mane, for fossilized honeycomb, maybe even a giraffe’s spots.

But for now, we’ll collect candlewicks and stick them in our holes. Lightning will spark an evolution. We have ways of catching fire in the summer’s dampest nights.

–

I find a thistle on the backside of a stuffed donkey and think to myself, what a strange tale. The donkey murmurs his agreement in bashful accordion rifts. He blushes vividly. Blinds me.

Soon, the accordions rise sonorous above and cut the world in two.

A bee and a candlemaker stare at each other between layers. The bee wonders why she cannot fly and the candlemaker despairs earning her stripes.

This is hurricane weather, I think.

]]>https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/meditations-in-yellow/feed/1whatnoisedoesaplatypusmakewithin the confines of metalhttps://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/within-the-confines-of-metal/
https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/within-the-confines-of-metal/#respondSat, 06 Jun 2015 21:39:12 +0000http://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/?p=173within the confines of metal
i am struck by the lasting
impressions of faces
on impermeable plaster walls
like fingerprints on mirrors
void only by smoked water
yet traceable in the thickest fog

it is while contemplating the permanence
of left marks that also
within the confines of metal
i consider the role of brooches,
diamond-crusted atlantic salmon
swimming up waterfalls
and against currents
to land within our valleys

our crooks and
nannies

who fills the greyed crevices of a sanded-down castle?

within the confines of metal
those leaves pink
like a pearl
i think i saw
on someone else’s
face

The sky is dark with clouds,
more pronounced,
and the squirrel’s tail
trembles a plea for
respite.

It lifts a paw and–

lands in a nest while
someone else takes watch,
unwanted paw raised.

]]>https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/there-is-a-squirrels-nest-on-my-porch/feed/0whatnoisedoesaplatypusmakebaby stepshttps://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/baby-steps/
https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/baby-steps/#respondMon, 13 Apr 2015 07:34:22 +0000http://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/?p=166We stood on our tip-toes
overlooking a giant staircase
of swiffered dust bunny dander
and you asked me if it was true,
if i like-liked you

and i thought about it
(i’ll carry you in my heart, right?)
and looked at the ladder to the attic
(carry yours within mine)
down again to my toes,
peaking from holey socks
holding me up

]]>https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/discolored/feed/1whatnoisedoesaplatypusmakeMirrorshttps://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/mirrors/
https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/mirrors/#commentsWed, 18 Feb 2015 17:19:26 +0000http://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/?p=159we eat each other alive
limb by limb
climbing each others’ ribs like ladders
and form a fist around each left lung
swollen purple
and shut

in this desolate waste land
fire brims the edges
of circles in the sand
counted by twos
until one is alone

in that ninth level
the right lungs breathe
in and

outside their nuclear horizons
a sunset fades into a tablecloth of stone-cut grain
that never rises

]]>https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/mirrors/feed/1whatnoisedoesaplatypusmakeMagichttps://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/magic/
https://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/magic/#commentsWed, 28 Jan 2015 19:53:35 +0000http://joshjacobs2013.wordpress.com/?p=157Slain,
they say Jesus turned
blood into wine,
but all I see is
more blood.